My life with teenage boys

Gold at the end of the rainbow….. November 23, 2013

It’s been a good week in the man-child household – we are on the up. Headlines of the week:

Man-child cleans room after threat from Mother!

You would have seen last week that I had reached the end of my tether. Finally the dust and debris littering man-child’s room was too much for me. Under threat of ME cleaning his room (and finding who knows what) he actually stayed home over the weekend and cleaned his room. OMG!!! There was actually enough carpet visible that I was able to run the vacuum over the floor. I wanted to show him how nice the room could look with a small amount of effort.

I also had three loads of washing to do as a result of his room cleaning efforts – I told you there was a lot to clean up, not to mention the nice sheets that had been on his bed for a few months (yes, totally gross).

Now that we can see the floor, he has another task to tackle – his desk! Such are the organisational instincts of our man-child, that he has everything on his desk and NOTHING in his desk drawers!! Hasn’t he worked out the easiest way to “clean” is to shove it all in the draw or cupboard? 🙂

Man-child actually has a paying job!

In another exciting development last weekend, my other man-child actually did some paid employment. A bit of lateral thinking by mother of a man-child secured a short term gig mowing lawns for a school family. Also this week, another job in the pipeline came off, with some garden maintenance work he can do during the Dec school hols (the latter through his initiative I am delighted to say).

He is clearly happy to have work, and enjoys manual labour and working outdoors like his twin brother. He is also excited about the prospect of banking some money before the Christmas holidays. Not nearly as excited as me!!! He even needs to get a tax file number – all good as far as I am concerned – welcome to the real world.

So all in all a good week on the home front. Small but important steps for the boys. And a small step towards sanity for Mother of a man-child. Now that’s a good job!